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propagated from eyes with a leaf attached, 
or from young side shoots such as spring 
from the main stem when the plant gets 
strong enough, or from shoots produced by 
a specimen that has been headed back. 
The cuttings should be put-singly in small 
pots in a brisk bottom heat if available, 
kept close, moist, and shaded. They 
generally require a good length of time to 
form roots. When these are present in 
sufficient numbers move the young plants 
to larger pots, using good sandy peat, and 
keep them in a brisk heat. Supposing the 
cuttings to have been taken off in the 
spring, it will be August by the time they 
get fully established in their pots. Treat 
generally during the remainder of the 
summer as required by other evergreen 
warm stove plants, syringing daily overhead, 
with a moist atmosphere, and giving shade 
when the sunis powerful. A temperature 
of 65° will be enough for the winter. In 
spring give them 6 or 7 inch pots, increas- 
ing the heat as the days get longer ; all 
further needed will be a continuance of the 
treatment given last summer, and a similar 
course when winter again comes round, 
with pot-room as the roots want it. The 
plants should be grown on so long as they 
retain their lower leaves, after the loss of 
which they lose much of their beauty, and 
ought to be shortened in, when the stools 
will produce cuttings. It comes from the 
Isle of Bourbon. 
P. caffra makes growth in the way of 
Gardenia intermedia, and produces flowers 
in bunches like a small white Ixora ; it is 
a free bloomer, its flowers look very pretty 
on the plant, and are well adapted for 
cutting. It strikes freely from cuttings of 
the young shoots put in about the end of 
April, at which time they may usually be 
had in suitable condition ; place them 
singly in little pots, filled with sand ; 
they will root in a month if kept warm, 
close, moist, and shaded. After the small 
pots are filled with roots move into others, 
3 or 4 inches in diameter, using sandy peat ; 
pinch out the points of the shoots, and grow 
on in a moderate stove heat, with a little 
shade and some air in the middle of the 
day, syringing in the afternoon. In 
August give them pots 2 or 3 inches larger, 
and encourage them to fill the soil before 
winter, during which time a temperature 
of 50° or 55° will be enough. More pot- 
room will be needed in spring, when the 
points of the leading shoots should be 
pinched out ; treat as to warmth and other 
matters as in the preceding summer. The 
plant isa good grower, and the young stock 
will require larger pots before the growing 
season is over. If all has gone well most 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
PELARGONIUM. 
of the principal shoots will produce 
flowers during the early part of autumn, 
after which the points of the growths may 
be cut back slightly, and the plants 
wintered as before. Give more root-room 
in spring, and treat generally as advised 
for the preceding season’s growth. By 
cutting in a little annually and partially 
removing the soil when needful, they will 
last for years. This Pavetta is a native of 
the Cape of Good Hope, but does best with 
more warmth than most plants from the 
same region require. 
Insects.—The daily use of the syringe 
advised during the growing season will 
keep the smaller insects in check. Should 
scale or bug, both of which insects will 
thrive on them, attack the plants, syringe 
with insecticide when at rest, and sponge 
the leaves if growth is in progress. 
PAVONIA. 
Evergreen stove plants possessing com- 
paratively little merit, yet somewhat singu- 
lar in appearance. They are easily grown, 
requiring nothing more than ordinary stove 
treatment, with moderate heat through the 
growing season, and a temperature of about 
60° in the night during winter. They 
will thrive in either peat or loam, with 
a liberal supply of water to the roots in 
summer. 
P. Makoyana, A distinct-looking species, 
one of the best of the genus; flowers 
purple and bright carmine. From Brazil. 
P. Wot. This species bears curious 
flowers, a combination of bright and 
blackish red. From Brazil. 
PELARGONIUM. 
Of all the genera of plants which are 
used for the decoration of greenhouses, 
there are none that hold a more prominent 
place than Pelargoniums. So accommo- 
dating are they that some of them will 
flower all the year round, while nearly all 
will produce flowers as long as they can be 
kept growing. 
Their propagation is easily effected from 
either shoot or root cuttings, the former 
mostly being used. They will strike at any 
time of the year, but spring or the latter 
part of summer is the best; if the latter 
season is chosen the shoots will be in right 
condition about the end of July. Cuttings 
may be made of the tops, or of the lower 
part of the current season’s growth, which 
will be further matured ; in the latter case 
let the cuttings be composed of a couple of 
jointseach. Put them 2 or 3 inches apart 
in pans or pots half filled with a mixture 
